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In reply to the discussion: The Twit tweets: Amazon is using our Postal System as their Delivery Boy [View all]Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)55. Even my RUMPer co-worker had to laugh at that one. nt
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The Twit tweets: Amazon is using our Postal System as their Delivery Boy [View all]
demmiblue
Mar 2018
OP
I don't like it when the president of the United States goes after companies he dislikes...it is
Demsrule86
Mar 2018
#31
He condemns a successful American company like Amazon, but not Putin and Russia
Renew Deal
Mar 2018
#3
Isn't the postal system supposed to be a 'delivery boy'. I thought the prezident was not
Kirk Lover
Mar 2018
#6
"Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes," Just like ME, #45, and "that makes me smart."
VOX
Mar 2018
#7
I never, in a million years, would have guessed that in my "retirement" years I would find
retread
Mar 2018
#9
what a moron, Amazon collects sale taxes and I pay them whenever I buy something
beachbum bob
Mar 2018
#10
Court cases & the Commerce Clause require sales taxes be collected if the retailer has a presence
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2018
#41
It's not just Amazon, a lot of my packages from other retailiers start from Fedex, and are delivered
HipChick
Mar 2018
#25
Most everything I order online for purchase eventually gets delivered to my
bullwinkle428
Mar 2018
#29
Actually, it's FedEx & UPS who socialize final segment costs to the USPS while privatizing profits.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2018
#23
This is exactly the complaint I have read time and time again on this site.
former9thward
Mar 2018
#26
Amazon and many other mega-retailers are able to negotiate lower shipping costs that
progressoid
Mar 2018
#43
And this is still not the complaint of the person I originally replied to. And yes...
ret5hd
Mar 2018
#47
Isn't that the purpose of the postal service to deliver letters and packages? He along with repukes
lunasun
Mar 2018
#27